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Posted at 11:04 AM on Thursday, September 24, 2009 by David Horowitz
School kids in a New Jersey elementary school being trained for the Obama Youth Corps.
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 by David Horowitz
The U.S. President began his speech to an audience that included Ahmadinejad, Ghaddafi and Hugo Chavez by explaining, somewhat apologetically, that it was his responsibility to defend the interests of his nation. But since Barack Obama never opens his
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Friday, September 18, 2009 by David Horowitz
The conservative movement has lost one of its wisest, most astute and most interesting thinkers -- a man who built important institutions of the movement in addition to writng some of its most astute texts. Irving was also a very generous man, and always welcomed younger conservatives like myself with a special warmth and encouragement. His most famous remark -- that a neo-conservative is a liberal who was mugged by reality -- is wholly typical of the kind of wit and insight that characterize
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Friday, September 18, 2009 by David Horowitz
The Left has launched a massive campaign to des
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Posted at 12:10 PM on Monday, September 14, 2009 by David Horowitz
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Sunday, September 06, 2009 by David Horowitz
There is no more mystery about Van Jones. He was a passionate defender of cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal, a self-satisfied and described "Communist," a supporter of the destruction of the Jewish state, and a promoter of the theory that the Katrina tragedy was a white racist plot, and so forth. That's okay with Democratic chairman Howard Dean, and Obama's Environmental Quality Council head Nancy Sutley. (....more
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Thursday, September 03, 2009 by David Horowitz
I've been following the Newsreal debate between Phyllis Chesler and Jamie Glazov on the one hand and Naomi Wolf, who thinks America, the most "liberated" country on the face of the earth by any -- any -- progressive standard (treatment of minorities, of women, of the poor, freedom of the individual), is a
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 by David Horowitz
Dear Freedom Center Supporter,
The Freedom Center needs your support!
We have plunged deeper than ever into the fight against the far left...we've had to. Because of this, your immediate help is needed now more than ever. Barack Obama and the socialist leadership in Congress are working furiously to change America! They want to transform our nation and they're spending trillions of tax dollars to do it.
I am not talking about the type of mi
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 by David Horowitz
[Editor's note: This blog by David Horowitz is reprinted from NewsRealBlog.]
Architects of a strategy for
forcing political change
through orchestrated crisis
I’m in NY where I’ll be headed to the Fox studios in a few hours t
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Monday, August 24, 2009 by David Horowitz
John Lennon
To read the previous parts of the Series:
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Friday, August 21, 2009 by David Horowitz
Links to the first four parts of the series:
Part I: Alinsky, Beck, Satan and Me
Part II: Hell On Earth
Part III: Boring From Within
Part IV: To Have and Have Not
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 by David Horowitz
The epigraph for the first chapter of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals which explains "The Purpose" of the rules is from the book of Job: "The life of man upon earth is a warfare..."
For Alinsky and his Machiavellian radicals politics is war. No matter what they say publicly or pretend to be, they are at war. They are at war even though no other factions in the political arena
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 by David Horowitz
Conservatives think of war as a metaphor when applied to politics. For radicals the war is real. That is why partisans of the left set out to destroy their opponents, not just refute their arguments. It is also why they never speak the truth. Deception for them is a military tactic in a war that is designed to eliminate their opponents.
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Monday, August 17, 2009 by David Horowitz
Picking up where we left off, Obama/Acorn strategy guru Saul ....more
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Sunday, August 16, 2009 by David Horowitz
Glenn Beck will be on vacation this week but when he returns on the 24th he has invited me to come to New York to talk to him on camera about Saul Alinsky, the strategy guru of the Obama era. For the ....more
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Posted at 8:09 AM on Saturday, August 15, 2009 by David Horowitz
Here's an email I received about a townhall meeting in Thousand Oaks California. Note how the Republicans did as they were told:
After watching the news tonight, I feel obligated to share my personal experience regarding a local town hall meeti
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Monday, August 03, 2009 by David Horowitz
You need to go up to Amazon right now or out to your local Barnes & Noble and get a copy of Harry Stein's new book I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican, which is a book that might have been titled Everything You Always Knew About Liberals But Were Afraid to Say. Harry is a funny writer and this is a funny book
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Thursday, July 30, 2009 by David Horowitz
Currying favor with Jew-haters like Jeremiah Wright, Daniel Ortega, the Saudi princes and Hugo Chavez is apparently not enough for Barack Obama. Now he has given a Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson the witch who organized the UN's own Krystallnacht in Durban several years ago. Here's an appropriate commentary by Jennifer Rubin. My only question is when are the Jews -
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Monday, July 27, 2009 by David Horowitz
This is my most recent Newsreal Blog, in case you haven't checked out our Newsreal Blog (to the right of the lead feature in today's Frontpage) -- you should.
Greta covered the Gates story again. I've always liked Greta, even when she was an MSNBC anchor. Whatever her politics -- and I had the distinct impression they were liberal -- she was fair. I experienced this first hand when I was a guest on her show and the topic was something vola
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Sunday, July 26, 2009 by David Horowitz
American soldiers in Iraq this week killed a 14 year old Iraqi and several other civilians and wounded several children after being attacked by Islamic terrorists. There was not a peep out of the left, out of the peace left, out of the mainstream media, out of Bill Maher, out of the corrupt John Murtha over these killings. What this tells us is what we already knew -- the left, liberals g
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Friday, July 24, 2009 by David Horowitz
I was on Glenn Beck yesterday to comment on the Henry Louis Gates fiasco. I blogged what I was going to say in advance on our new Newsreal Blog here. A reader of my blog claims that the fact that black males are more likely to come under suspicion than whites is an indication of the racism of law enforcement. First, not in this case. A black man was seen -- seen -- breaking into a house. In fact a black ma
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 by David Horowitz
As the hearings on Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor proceed the controversy focuses on whether she is a "judicial activist" or whether everyone is a judicial activist as the demagogic Democrats maintain. What the hearings have indisputably revealed is that she is a judicial liar. This turns out to be a legal version of the Trinity church caper. It's easy to see how a President who spent twenty years at the feet of a spiritual adviser who is an anti-Semitic racist and didn't h
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Wednesday, July 08, 2009 by David Horowitz
Republican legislator Darrell Issa and the Republican staff of the Government Oversight Committee have put out a report on the cause of the economic meltdown that appears to be based on false premises and therefore draws false conclusions. The report claims that the economic crisis can be traced to government pressure on lenders to give loans to poor people an
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Posted at 11:34 AM on Monday, July 06, 2009 by David Horowitz
The left has such a stranglehold on campus life that the following scenario is being played out on campuses across the country. Conservatives invite a speaker -- leftwing fascists including pro-jihad Muslim groups attack the events, or threaten them, and the university assigns security to protect the students' safety. Then the university charges the victims for the security while leaving the fascists unpunished to do it all over again. I spoke at two universities -- Emory and the
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Sunday, July 05, 2009 by David Horowitz
I missed this article when it appeared in the American Thinker, but this description of the Islamic Society of North America's attempt to blot out the celebration of America's birthday -- no doubt a Nakba to them -- is worth reading.
As I've noted before, Subprime loans -- or loans mainly to poor people with poor credit -- were not the cause of the great crash of 2008. The cause was no down paym
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Friday, July 03, 2009 by David Horowitz
My wife and I celebrated our Fourth three days early by taking a trip to San Diego with Marine Colonel John Folsom -- first to visit the USS Green Bay, a massive LPD state-of-the-art landing vessel and then to view the change of command at Camp Pendleton, a ceremony installing the new commandant of the 1st Marine Division, Major General Richard Mills.
We were welcomed aboard the Green Bay by chief executive officer, Lt. Commander Randy Zamora, who was our guide throughou
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 by David Horowitz
[You can find this post on our new feature Newsrealblog.com on the right side of Frontpage. Its mission is to Keep the Cable Guys Honest and will cover the news through cable matrix.]
Is there anyone more self-righteous and also more sophomoric on TV than MSNBC's resident ranter<
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Monday, June 29, 2009 by David Horowitz
By a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court has reversed a Connecticut court ruling that a white fire fighter should be discriminated against on the basis of his skin color. Shocking as it may seem that racial preferences should be a contested issue in America in 2009, it is. After the death of Martin Luther King, the political left and the Democratic Party set out to institutionalize racism in American government and American law, and have been wildly successful at achieving their malodorous objec
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Posted at 2:04 PM on Sunday, June 21, 2009 by David Horowitz
Here's one scene from the historic revolt in Iran. Everything liberals pretend to be concerned about is on the line in Tehran today. Basic freedom to vote and have your vote counted; basic freedom to protest and not be killed. Even the style of the revolt is something for liberals to celebrate -- the Tweeter revolution, the women's revolution, the revolution of the young. But liberals are silent. They want their governmen
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Friday, June 19, 2009 by David Horowitz
The answer is probably. But nonetheless the spectacle of liberals urging the United States not to stand up for freedom when a historic revolution for freedom is struggling to be born in Iran is surely one of the most pathetic spectacles in the modern liberal record. Watching Keith Olbermann and Jonathan Alter this evening reach for every argument imaginable to justify their betrayal of the Iranian people, while mangling history in the process was unappetizing but instructive.
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 by David Horowitz
Everybody's talking about Bill Maher's rant against the great black hope for being too much talk and too little substance and for caring about what people think (imagine that! a politician who looks at the polls...). Here's my take. I've been concerned as readers of this column know with the gloom and dooming on the right by people who think Obama is the problem rather than the Democratic Party and political left, and who are convinced that because so many people think the president walks on wat
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Thursday, June 11, 2009 by David Horowitz
Barack Obama is going to give "liberalism" a bad name. Now it's Miranda rights for terrorists captured on the field of battle. What's next, public defenders if they can't afford a lawyer?
This absurdity is only one of the many Obama embarrassments that have flowed from his need to throw bones to the anti-American left in his
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Saturday, June 06, 2009 by David Horowitz
Many of the judgments passed on Obama's Cairo speechfrom the right have seized on particulars -- distorted historical references and false moral equivalences designed to position Obama as a mediator -- which have become an all too familiar feature of Obama's speeches. In doing so they have missed the forest for the trees. My friend Ron Radosh has written a blog which mischaracterizes what I wrote as an uncritical reading and a completely favora
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 by David Horowitz
I continue to get emails comparing President Obama to Hitler, the most recent suggesting that the murder of an abortion doctor might be Obama's "Reichstag Fire" and would be used by Obama to take away our civil liberties and terminate our Republic as Hitler did the Weimar Republic in the 1930s. This is lunatic stuff. Obama is better compared to Neville Chamberlain than to Adolf Hitler if you like these kinds of comparisons. Americans are not Germans -- it's a very big difference as far
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 by David Horowitz
OFF TO THE RACES
Enough With The Selective Outrage
By Charlie Cook
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Someone recently asked me what, after all these years around politics -- 25 years of covering politics, 37 years involved in one way or another -- I liked best and what bothered me the most.
To my alarm, I found myself exhibiting far more passion in delineating what I didn't like: the inc
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 by David Horowitz
I am reading Said Sayrfiezadeh's humorous and touching memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free (when the revolution comes). It was reviewed in Frontpagemag a month ago by David Forsmak. It is a beautifully observed portrait, which highlights the religious nature of the left and its detachment from reality like no other I
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Monday, May 25, 2009 by David Horowitz
I spent Memorial Day at the National Veterans’ Cemetery in Los Angeles, where 86,000 soldiers are buried and remembered now as “fallen heroes.” It is an annual event sponsored by a committee of supporters of the cemetery and veterans. Two days earlier, 2,700 Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts had planted flags beside each grave, 86,000 in all.
I was part of the program with actors Jon Voight, Robert Davi, Robert Forster and Lee Purcell. We read letter
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Thursday, May 21, 2009 by David Horowitz
My friend Phyllis Chesler has written a column about the recruitment of black anti-Semites in prison. The Black Muslim movement in America was racist and anti-Semitic in its origins and in no small measure began the re-legitimizing of Jew hatred in the American mainstream after it had been driven under a rock in the post-WW II era. Because blacks
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 by David Horowitz
California voters rejected five ballot measures that would have raised their taxes by billions of dollars to fund a massive budget deficit created by the Democratic legislature and the renegade Republican governor. The brain dead Republican Party supported these measures. The tax hikes were defeated by 60% majorities. At the same time, voters by a 76% majority, voted to punish legislators if they fail to balance the budget by witholding their salary raises. So 76% of California's liberal elec
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Friday, May 15, 2009 by David Horowitz
As we have reported in these pages, the trustees of the College of DuPage attempted to protect students from faculty abuses including:
1) assigning texts representing only one side of controver
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Posted at 12:00 AM on Thursday, May 14, 2009 by David Horowitz
In demanding the release of the photos of alleged abuse of Islamic terror suspects, the ACLU is carrying on its war against America. And make no mistake, that is what the ACLU's war is about. No longer can the left mask its
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Posted at 2:44 PM on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 by David Horowitz
May 12, 2009
Koran-memorization children's show indoctrinates kids in antisemitism
Why don't they learn the Qur'an's true, peaceful teachings of love and respect for the People of the Book? Will Honest Ibe Hooper of CAIR please explain how it is that on a Qur'an memorization show they get what we're endlessly told are the genuine pacific and tolerant teachings of the Qur'an so terribly wrong?<
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Posted at 4:30 AM on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 by David Horowitz
Barack Obama's latest attacks on the CIA and the men and women who are protecting us from Islamic terrorists are but the most recent in a thirty year assault on America's national security by the Democratic Party. Beginning with Watergate and the Carter Administration, the Democrats have attempted to gut and hamstring the nation's national security apparatus. During the Iraq War they supported the destruction of three major national security programs by government employees breaking the Espionag
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Posted at 9:48 AM on Monday, April 27, 2009 by David Horowitz
Finally universities are responding to the six-year campaign we have waged to restore academic standards to our universities and stop the political indoctrination of students in the classroom. The heart of this campaign is the effort to provide students with academic freedom rights so they can complain about professorial abuse in the classroom. Now our campaign is bearing fruit. At the University of California Santa Barbara, where I have spoken more than once and as recently as last spring,
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Posted at 10:59 AM on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 by David Horowitz
A new liberal "study" has been published which at last admits that conservatives have been purged from academic faculties by an academic blacklist. Well not quite. It concedes that faculties are overwhelmingly left but doesn't explain how they got that way. At the same time it claims that the exclusion of conservatives from academic faculties has no impact in the classroom. Bad timing since Jacob Laksin an
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Posted at 10:03 AM on Friday, March 13, 2009 by David Horowitz
John K. Wilson is the editor of Illinois Academe, a publication of the American Association of University Professors. He is not himself a professor but he is an academic and he has been attacking me and the academic freedom campaign since its inception. I'm attributing paranoid tendencies to Wilson because in person he's a civilized individual and I don't like to call him a liar. But here is one example of his mode of attack taken from ....more
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Posted at 2:16 PM on Monday, March 02, 2009 by David Horowitz
Che Guevara was Castro's executioner and a mass murderer, as Humberto Fontova and others have documented. He was also a Maoist, which is to say a bone-headed Marxist whose views along with those of every Communist were discredited twenty ye
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Posted at 10:46 AM on Sunday, March 01, 2009 by David Horowitz
I'm in Washington DC where I attended the CPAC conclave. On Friday evening we co-hosted an event for Geert Wilders attended by upwards of 500 people. Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament, is under indictment in his own country for creating a short film called Fitna which juxtaposes instructions from the Koran with the blood curdling statements of Islamic Imams currently calling for the extermination o
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Posted at 4:54 PM on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 by David Horowitz
Although the new book I have written with Jacob Laksin is not out officially until March 10, it has already come under heavy attack by femininists in the current issue of InsideHigherEd.com. My publisher will probably not appreciate my even discussing the book which is called One-Party
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Posted at 7:32 AM on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 by David Horowitz
On Frontpage today, Robert Spencer dissects the atrocity in New York committed by an Islamic "liberal" a man who built a TV station called "Bridges" dedicated to presenting Muslims as moderates. As Spencer shows, the man was a fraud to begin with having ties to the Jihadi organization CAIR and seeking funding from the Saudi bank of Islamic hate. What is the left's response to the Islami
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Posted at 1:13 PM on Monday, February 16, 2009 by David Horowitz
The founder of a Buffalo New York Islamic television station which set out to present Muslims in a positive light walked into a police station last week and admitted he had beheaded his 37 year old wife. This is what the morally sick Muslim world calls an "honor" killing. And this is what the morally sick liberal world prefers not to know -- and not to have anyone know. Imagine if a Christ
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Posted at 2:05 PM on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 by David Horowitz
As reported at Socialist Worker.org, a Communist website:Socialistworker.org
February 9, 2009STUDENTS AT the University of Rochester (UR) and their supporters from the community occupied a campus building February 6 in solidarity with the victims of Israel's siege of Gaza--and in a matter of half a day declared victory after winning important concessions from the administration.The university agreed to a public forum to discuss UR's financial policies,and its
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Posted at 10:55 AM on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 by David Horowitz
Commentary from Atlas Shrugs on Taliban beheading of Polish engineer.ALLAHU AKBAR: BEHEADING IN THE NAME OF THE RELIGION OF ........For the zillionth time, where are the thousands of Muslims and Islamic apologists? Why haven't they taken to the streets to rally against this "not in the name of Islam"? Why? Ever? But they will r
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Posted at 11:56 PM on Sunday, February 08, 2009 by David Horowitz
Alaa al Aswany is an Egyptian novelist, an intellectual, a man of civilized tastes, celebrated for his fiction in this country as well as in his own. In Sunday's NY Times he laments President Obama's lack of fairness because the President "has not taken a stand against Israel's war against Gaza." In Egypt, Aswany says, "we call this a massacre." So not only have the Palestinians embraced an army of religious fanatics whose agenda is a second Holocaust of the Jews and who in pursuit
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Posted at 6:49 PM on Friday, February 06, 2009 by David Horowitz
Chabad-Lubavitch World HQ Targeted in Jihad Videos Shevat 11, 5769, 05February 09 11:30
by Hana Levi Julian
(IsraelNN.com) Barely two months after a rabbi, his wife and four other Jews were brutally murdered in a Chabad House in Mumbai, India, theChabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn has been targeted in a series of jihadist videos posted on the internet.The English-language videos and posts singled out Orthodox Jews, and especially the
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Posted at 2:07 PM on Thursday, February 05, 2009 by David Horowitz
Rami Kaminski, MD,For centuries, we lived in Berdichev. In the brutal Ukrainian winter of 1941, SS soldiers arrived there and rounded up eighty-seven members of my family, babies, young adults, octogenarians, stripped them naked, marched them to a nearby ditch, and executed them. Their lifeless bodies fell silently into a mass grave.During their two millennia in the Diaspora, Jews were not known to resist. There are few recorded instances in which Jews turned against their host n
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Posted at 12:45 PM on Thursday, January 29, 2009 by David Horowitz
I first met David Swindle when I spoke at Ball State University a few years ago. At the time he was a political science major and the student of Professor George Wolfe, a music professor who doubled as head of the Ball State Peace Sudies program and whom I had accused of indoctrinating his classes in a knee-jerk radicalism. My encounter with Swindle was a most unpleasant experience. In
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Posted at 11:59 AM on Sunday, January 25, 2009 by David Horowitz
Here's an email from a reader. While I don't agree that the whole Democratic Party is a sleeper cell, I think his observation that the political left wants us to release terrorists from Gitmo and prosecute counter-terrorists in Washington is a sharp one: Comment submitted by Garry in regards to blog entry: Do Liberals Help The Terrorists?About six years ago I decided to call the democrat party the sleeper cell party. I thought that it may even make for a good book title
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Posted at 6:30 PM on Friday, January 23, 2009 by David Horowitz
Evidently they do. The seven year campaign to portray the terrorists incarcerated in Guantanamo and interrogated in CIA "black sites" as innocent victims of American repression has been more successful than its architects -- al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshots CAIR, the Muslim American Society, ISNA and other supporters of the jihad -- could have dreamed. Sixty-two terrorists (that we can identify) have already returned to their war against the United States after being freed from
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Posted at 10:06 AM on Thursday, January 22, 2009 by David Horowitz
Barack Obama has been in office one day and he has already made two troubling policy decisions (and I'm not even referring to the closing of Guantanamo -- at least in this one he has given himself a year to figure out what to do with its terrorist inhabitants).The first of these is the first phone call he made as President which was to the corrupt terrorist leader of
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Posted at 2:48 PM on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 by David Horowitz
Just an interesting piece of evidence of the curious behavior of the Roosevelt administration toward the Jews during WWII -----A few months ago, Secretary of State Colin Powell gave a posthumous award for "constructive dissent" to Hiram (or Harry) Bingham, IV. For over fifty years, the State Department resisted any attempt to honor Bingham. For them he was an insubordinate member of the US diplomatic service, a dangerous maverick who was eventually demoted. Now, after his death, h
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Posted at 2:23 PM on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 by David Horowitz
First Obama had a Muslim jihadist say a prayer at his inauguration. Then he had a senile Christian racist, Joseph Lowery, give another
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Posted at 10:02 AM on Thursday, January 15, 2009 by David Horowitz
Ann Coulter's new book is one that everyone concerned with the left's assault on reason should get ahold of and read. Coulter is often compared to Senate-seat-thief Al Franken, but there is really no comparison and not only because Coulter is funny and also witty. If you read a Franken book, what you learn is that conservatives are liars -- in other words what you learn is a lie. Reading Coulter's new offering ....more
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Posted at 11:08 AM on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 by David Horowitz
Is Al Gore. Only a dolt -- or a liberal -- can be blind to the fact that the tide is turning on the global warming scam movement and what many of us suspected is now more and more clearly the undeniable case. Global temperatures are falling and even the ice caps are reforming. See this American Thinker article for how the scam artists are faking it. ....more
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Posted at 8:54 AM on Saturday, January 10, 2009 by David Horowitz
Today, January 10, is my 70th birthday and I'm alive and kicking, and surrounded (virtually as well as literally) by my beautiful wife and loving and wonderful family and friends. I also have my animals -- three dogs and two horses -- a solace in age and models of emotional candor and loyalty, two qualities well known to be generally missing in fellow human beings.The older a person gets, and the more he knows, the worse things can look. And so it has been over the course of my lifetime.
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Posted at 2:46 PM on Monday, December 29, 2008 by David Horowitz
Twelve hundred rocket attacks on civilians conducted by a genocidal army of religious fanatics, and you can count on leftists at The Nation to support them and support them.The Nation thus
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Posted at 1:50 PM on Saturday, December 27, 2008 by David Horowitz
After years of pussy-footing and paralysis in dealing with the terrorist state on its doorstep in Gaza, Israel has finally struck back. A bombing raid against actual Palestinian targets is a good beginning, but only a beginning. Hamas, the totalitarian government in Gaza, is part of an international murder incorporated, otherwise known as radical Islam. The Hamas mur
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Posted at 1:31 PM on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 by David Horowitz
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/world/middleeast/20burg.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=avrum%20burg&st=cseI always wondered why Vanity Fair's nastiness-in-residence, James Wolcott, was such a vituperative and witless hater. Now Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs has made it clear to me ....more
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Posted at 6:53 PM on Monday, December 22, 2008 by David Horowitz
I will get nothing but grief for making negative comments about Barack Obama's pick of a poet laureate, so let me say at the outset that the president-elect can hardly be faulted for making such a lousy choice, since Elizabeth Alexander has been lauded from one end of the academic literary culture to the other. Showered in honors by the current standard-makers of the high culture, there is no literary voice that I have been able to detect that has the artistic intelligence or alternati
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Posted at 11:20 AM on Sunday, December 14, 2008 by David Horowitz
The wolves of the left, sensing a new opening with a new administration, are circling. Dangerous organizations like ACORN and MoveOn.org feel that Obama's victory is theirs as well. Poisonous figures like George Soros, Louis Farrakhan, and Bill Ayers who have spent their lives trying to tear America down feel newly empowered by the election results. Anti-Semites of the jihad are licking their chops. Like their bloodthirsty comrades abroad, Islamo-Fascists here at home are ready to
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Posted at 2:41 PM on Thursday, December 11, 2008 by David Horowitz
In a column on liar in chief Bill Ayers, the Nation's Katha Pollitt gets it almost right. Ayers lies when he pretends that the WeatherUnderground was created after the Townhouse explosion in which three bomb-makers were killed. The three dead criminals were part of the terrorist organization that Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn founded and were intent on blowing up a dance at Fort
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Posted at 2:40 PM on Monday, December 08, 2008 by David Horowitz
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081208/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_obama For the die-hards, here's a Newsmax column with the facts that show why this debate should never have taken place:http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/?s=al&promo_code=73E0-1I'm still pinching myself over the irrationality displayed in this thread. Consider just
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Posted at 11:40 AM on Sunday, December 07, 2008 by David Horowitz
I have become accustomed to the fact that when it comes to political issues people are averse to complexities and messy facts and prefer to argue ideological simplicities instead. Thus I am lectured by many that the Constitution matters, that it can't be subordinated to politics, etc., etc. Then I am told that I have gone ideologically soft, that I am an Obama Republican and that I am not a conservative. All because I have pointed out what should be some obvious truths. First,
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Posted at 1:11 PM on Saturday, December 06, 2008 by David Horowitz
The continuing efforts of a fringe group of conservatives to deny Obama his victory and to lay the basis for the claim that he is not a legitimate president is embarrassing and destructive. The fact that these efforts are being led by Alan Keyes, an unhinged demagogue on the political fringe who lost a senate election to the then unknown Obama by 42 points should be a warning in itself.This tempest over whether Obama, the child of an American citizen, was born on American soil
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Posted at 3:18 PM on Thursday, December 04, 2008 by David Horowitz
It seems like I've taken on the thankless task of keeping conservatives from behaving like liberals, acting like unpatriotic sore losers and attacking the legitimacy of the new commander-in-chief. As if that were not enough to boil the water, here's another issue on which conservatives have bent themselves out of shape, refusing to accept their share of responsibility for the financial crisis that is upon us. Contrary to conservative mythmakers, the subprime credit is not the cause of
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Posted at 7:50 AM on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 by David Horowitz
Without exception my critics seem to think there is a Law that is objective and just and beyond the reach of human influence and judgment. Would that were the case. But it is not. And both conservatives and liberals understand this when the shoe is pinching their foot and not the other guy's. What conservative thinks there is a right to privacy in the Constitution that justifies abortion? And how many liberals think the 5 justices who gave the 2000 election to George Bush were not deciding the F
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Posted at 3:18 PM on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 by David Horowitz
Among the many attacks on my previous blog both abusive and not, one common theme seems to stand out. This is the claim that I have slighted the Rule of Law in favor of some misguided principle of democracy, which is not a conservative idea -- or so my critics would argue. My error is to have elevated the principle of majority rule over the rule of law. I believe the answer to these critics is already in my original blog. The Founders lodged authority for the institution of government no
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Posted at 1:55 PM on Monday, December 01, 2008 by David Horowitz
Conservatives need to get a grip. My email box is full of right wing trash talk (sorry, I'm peeved this morning) about Obama's fake birth certificate, his alleged covert Islamism and Hillary's scandals. Worse, we were running a frontpage story on this last wild goose until I canned it. Since not everybody is following me at this point, let's take them one at a time. First, the birth certificate. Is Obama a legitimate president of the United States? Well, let me put it
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Posted at 2:41 PM on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 by David Horowitz
Today's guest column:WHITE GUILT IS DEAD
By Tom Adkins
Look at my fellow conservatives! There they go, glumly shuffling along, depressed by the election aftermath. Not me. I'm virtually euphoric. Don't get me wrong. I'm not thrilled with America's flirtation with neo socialism. But there's a massive silver lining in those magical clouds that lofted Barak Obama to the Presidency. For today, without a shred of intellectually legitimate
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Posted at 3:33 PM on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 by David Horowitz
In a series of announcements filling top level posts in his new administration, President-elect Barack Obama has signalled in unmistaken terms that he intends to govern from the center, or from the left-of-center, as circumstances will inevitably dictate given that Democrats now control all three branches of government.Although he ran as an enigma to such an unprecedented extent that one could never be sure in which direction he would turn there were clear indications that this migh
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Posted at 5:43 PM on Sunday, November 23, 2008 by David Horowitz
I'm still getting a lot of emails and reading a lot of stories on the right about the subprime mortgage mess as the cause of the greatest financial meltdown in history. Look, I think Barney Frank is a brain dead socialist blowhard and should probably be in jail along with Franklin Raines and a raft of other crooks at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But the subprime crisis could have happened and its bubble burst without causing the financial collapse we now find ourselves mired in. The cause of this
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Posted at 11:16 PM on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 by David Horowitz
I went to my polling station to vote about 2:30PM. There was one person in line in front of me and my wait was about 2 seconds. So much for the paranoia about the suppression of the vote. There are always screwups at election time but it was not until Florida 2000 that these began to enter the folklore of conspiracy which is an American political religion. This year the paranoia got hot and heavy on both sides. Republicans were sure election fraud was going to rule the day and the Democrats woul
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Posted at 11:58 AM on Friday, October 31, 2008 by David Horowitz
Following Daniel Pipes speech at Washington U, St. Louis, a school which flatters itself as the "Harvard of the Midwest," a panel of Muslim and Leftist faculty assembled to libel Pipes and lend support to America's terrorist enemies by labeling the adversaries of terror "Islamophobes." Note how the entire case against Pipes is built on lies: that Pipes authored a "blacklist" (anyone who criticizes campus radicals automatically gets this label), that Pipes conflates moderate Muslims with Muslim b
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Posted at 12:03 PM on Monday, October 20, 2008 by David Horowitz
http://graznar.com/2008/10/19/daniel-pipes-comes-to-campus/ Daniel Pipes Comes to CampusToday, Student Life was faced with the tough decision of whether or not to run a potentially inflammatory ad for a speech by conservative commentator Daniel Pipes. College Newspapers across the country have been faced
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Posted at 7:10 PM on Sunday, October 19, 2008 by David Horowitz
This was sent to me by my son Ben who knows more about the economic system than I ever will. Tyler Cowen is a conservative economist: Three Trends and a Train Wreck By TYLER COWEN Published: October 17, 2008 HOW did the world’s financial system get into such a mess? It’s tempting to blame specific politicians, decisions and laws (or the lack thereof), and leave it at that. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image David G. Klein While it’s certainly true that a great numb
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Posted at 7:54 AM on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 by David Horowitz
I'm speaking at UVA tonight, and will watch the presidential debate with the students after my speech. Last night's talk at Central Michigan University went off without incident, probably because the left was attending a parallel event in which a Professor Fatah delivered a talk on how the Jews blew up the World Trade Center. This same professor was deported to his native Egypt a few years ago and then re-hired when the State Department gave him a new visa.
Please read the articles by and ab
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Posted at 4:11 PM on Monday, October 13, 2008 by David Horowitz
Tonight I'm speaking at Central Michigan University a campus with 20,000+ students, while my colleague Robert Spencer is at Penn State. As usual the threat of violence from the campus left is great enough that the university administration has decided to assign security guards to the event. In an act that reveals how university administrators are enablers of the campus jihadists, the president of Central Michigan Michael Rao, has threatened the CMU students that have invited me with the bill for
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Posted at 9:22 AM on Thursday, October 09, 2008 by David Horowitz
Students on 76 campuses have signed up to host events during our third “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.” This is an extraordinary turnout in a presidential election year when many student activists are campaigning for campuses. The theme of this fall's protest is "Stop the Jihad on Campus." Our targets are groups such as the Muslim Students Association which brings jihadist speakers to campus and their allies in the fifth column le
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Posted at 4:15 PM on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 by David Horowitz
The lead article in Frontpage today by Jacob Laksin exposes in genteel but highly effective prose the prevarications of a spokesmen for the Muslim Brotherhood and the professor who invited him to snooker University of California students into thinking that the fountainhead of the terrorist jihad against the West is a peaceful, democratic organization. Professor Mark LeVine is a
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Posted at 12:56 PM on Sunday, October 05, 2008 by David Horowitz
How Obama Democrats Plan to Win the ElectionLetter to the Editor of the Springfield (PA) Press: Given the fact that Acorn has been in the news lately in association with Democratic Party add-ons to the proposed presidential economic bailout package, it might be useful for Springfield residents to be aware of that organization’s activities in our neighborhood. Two years ago, I received a notice in the mail from the Delaware County voter registration office in Media, stating t
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Posted at 10:50 PM on Thursday, October 02, 2008 by David Horowitz
If one debate performance can breathe life into a dying campaign we saw one tonight. It was in a sense a reverse of the Obama-McCain debate where Obama just had to hold his ground to win. Sarah Palin gave a bravura performance that already has restored hope to the Republican ranks and will undoubtedly have ramifications in the polls. This may not win the elections for the Republicans but one thing is certain it has given them a leader who will shape their future.
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Posted at 12:04 PM on Thursday, October 02, 2008 by David Horowitz
But here's an interview with Warren Buffett about the nature of the economic problem that confronts us. It's not about Wall Street; it's about the economy. The problem is liquidity and we are all at risk. The problem that created the problem is markets that were both over-regulated (guaranteed risk) and under-regulated (unlimited leveraging of bad mortgages) allowing greedy actors to spin out of reality and out of control. A bad loan problem could ha
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Posted at 1:40 PM on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 by David Horowitz
I have received a ton of emails of late with the YouTube video "Burning Down the House" identifying the Community Reinvestment Act as the cause of the current financial crisis. All of these emails without exception come from individuals who are not economists and who have no greater understanding of the economic crisis than the 99.8 percent of pontificators on global warming do about climatology. I think it is prudent to try to be a little more circumspect when sounding off on matters where ange
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Posted at 4:37 PM on Monday, September 29, 2008 by David Horowitz
The voters have spoken and it's not good for the McCain team. If you look at the RealClearPolitics track for Pennsylvania, you'll see that McCain has lost all his gains and is now almost five points behind, whereas on September 18, he was less than a point behind, which meant (in my humble estimation) that he would win the state and the election. Obviously the election isn't over, but just as obviously voters did not pay much attention to Obama's reaction shots as I wondered in my last blog
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Posted at 10:49 PM on Friday, September 26, 2008 by David Horowitz
Call me strange but I think undecided and swing voters are more swayed by character than by issues. The issues voters are already committed. Watching the debate this evening I was struck by the inability of Obama to keep his cool when his positions were challenged by his opponent. During the second half of the debate he was rattled and lost his composure almost every time John McCain contested or contradicted what he said. Scowls, inappropriate smiles, shaking of the head, rude interruptions bet
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Posted at 9:12 PM on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 by David Horowitz
"There's a lot of water yet to pass under the bridge -- events, debates, revised strategies." That was the loophole I created for myself when I predicted a McCain landslide. Obviously the most important of these unpredictables was events and obviously the biggest financial meltdown in the history of the world is an event-changing event all in itself. And that's what's happened. There's been a seven point shift in the polls from McCain to Obama since this crisis broke and since I made my predicti
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Posted at 8:47 PM on Sunday, September 14, 2008 by David Horowitz
Not being a pollster I have little to lose by predicting the race, and of course there's a lot of water yet to pass under the bridge -- events, debates, revised strategies etc. But right now I don't see this as a close race. If the present trend holds, McCain-Palin will win 331 electoral votes to 203 for Obama-Biden. I think it's already evident that the current toss-up, lean-McCain and lean-Obama states likely to fall to McCain include Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Virginia
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Posted at 1:22 PM on Thursday, September 11, 2008 by David Horowitz
Actually it's worse than that. Yes, Matt Damon is making a film with other Hollywood reds to promote a Stalinst history of the United States. But as Larry Schweikert's new book -- 48 Liberal Lies About American
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Posted at 11:38 PM on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 by David Horowitz
Last night on H&C Colmes complained that the McCain-Palin team has "stolen" Obama's campaign theme of "change." Who knew that the election was going to be as entertaining as the Democratic primary. It's called jiu-jitsu Alan. They also stole your wallet: feminism. Without a gender gap, Democrats can't win -- and they won't. While we're on the subject of fun, here's one of the funniest columns I've read recently, called "
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Posted at 8:45 AM on Friday, September 05, 2008 by David Horowitz
Whoever is architecting the McCain-Palin campaign is doing a brilliant job of it. With Palin anchoring the right, McCain is freed to be the "maverick" -- unloose his ship from its self-discredited Republican moorings and court the independents. "Country First" is a brilliant political slogan which manages to hold out the bi-partisan carrot while wielding the patriot stick. Underscoring the importance of the latter, Barack Obama's interview with Bill O'Reilly which preceded McCain's conve
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